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(NbModeL) D. A. CARTER. Heel Plate.

No. 243,208. Patented June 21,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

DANIEL A. CARTER, OF BABYLON, NEW YORK.

HEEL-PLATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,208 dated June 21, 1881.

Application filed November 24, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, DANIEL A. CARTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Babylon, in the county of Suffolk and State of New York, have invented new and useful I mprovetreading-surface to the same; and the invention consists in a novel construction, which will be fully hereinafter explained, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

This invention is illustrated in the accom- I5 panyin g drawings, in which-- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my heel-plate as applied to a heel. Fig. 2 is a plan or top view, showing the inner surface of my heel-plate. Fig. 3 is a transverse section in the line as 00, Fig. 2, and looking in the direction of the arrow opposite to that line.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts. In the example shown in the drawings the letter A designates a heel-plate, which is made in the form of a horseshoe, and which may be made of malleable iron or of wrought-iron. The

outer or bearing surface of this heel-plate is roughened, as shown in Fig. 1, and from its inner surface project two sets of spurs, a a,

0 one set near to the inner and the other near to the outer edge of the heel-plate. 1f the heelplate is made of malleable iron these spurs may be cast solid with the body of the heelplate, or they may be inserted into said body 5 after it has been cast or forged. The spurs a a diverge from each other, one set being turned outward and the'other inward, as shown in Fig. 3; and if they are driven into the leather of the heel they take a firm hold therein, and the heel- 40 plate is securely held in position.

From this description it will be readily understood that my heel-plate, when once secured to a heel, can be worn out completely, and even after the plate has been worn off the spurs a a 5 will still form a sort of protection against the wear of the heel.

I am aware that a boot or shoe heel has been provided with a leather-disk treading-surface and alternately projecting in and out with re spect to the periphery of the disk, said spurs setting in a leather disk, and being attached to the heel proper by a screw passing through a central perforation in the plate. I am also aware that heel-taps have been provided with roughened treading-surfaces and, further, that they have been made in the form of a horseshoe. Such constructions, however, are not my invention, and are of themselves hereby disclaimed.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As an improved article of manufacture, the within-described heel-tap, consisting of a cast-metal narrow plate in the form of a horseshoe, provided with two rows of spurs, a a, extending around and adjacent to the inner and outer edges of said plate respectively, and alternating with each other, the outer row, a, of said spurs being inclined toward the outer edge of the plate, and the other row, a, inclining toward the inner edge of the plate, all as herein shown and described.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, the within-described heel-tap, consisting of a cast-metal narrow plate in the form of a horseshoe, provided on one side with a roughened treading-surface, and on the opposite side with two rows of spurs, a a, extending around and adjacent to the inner and outer edges of said plate respectively, and alternating with each other, the outer row, a, of said spurs being inclined toward the outer edge of the plate, and the other row, a, inclining toward the inner edge of the top plate, all as herein shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DANIEL A. CARTER. '[L.S.] Witnesses:

GEORGE W. LARNED, J OHN M. GODFREY. 

